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4777: Explaining European Patterns of Taxation: From the Introduction of the Euro to the Euro-Crisis

Mark Hallerberg

4776: Financial Dependence, Formal Credit and Firm Informality: Evidence from Peruvian Household Data

Eduardo Moron, Edgar Salgado and Cristhian Seminario

4775: Do Surges in International Capital Inflows Influence the Likelihood of Banking Crises? Cross-Country Evidence on Bonanzas in Capital Inflows and Bonanza-Boom- Bust Cycles

Julian Caballero

4774: Structural Reforms in Brazil: Progress and Unfinished Agenda

Teresa Ter-Minassian

4773: Credit, Labor Informality and Firm Performance in Colombia

Lorena Caro, Arturo Galindo and Marcela Meléndez

4772: Reform Priorities for Sub-national Revenues in Brazil

Teresa Ter-Minassian

4771: Ideas for Development in the Americas, Volume 27: The Skills Gap: Teens in the Workforce

Rita Funaro

4770: Reducing Reliance on Natural Resource Revenue and Increasing Subnational Tax Autonomy in Bolivia

Giorgio Brosio

4769: Export Pioneers in Latin America

Charles Sabel, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias, Ricardo Hausmann, Andres Rodriguez-Clare and Ernesto Stein

4768: Sub-national Revenue Mobilization in Peru

Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Cristian Sepulveda

4767: The World of Forking Paths: Latin America and the Caribbean Facing Global Economic Risks (Executive Summary)

Andrew Powell

4766: The World of Forking Paths: Latin America and the Caribbean Facing Global Economic Risks

Andrew Powell

4765: Sub-National Revenue Mobilization in Latin American and Caribbean Countries: The Case of Argentina

Daniel Artana, Sebastian Auguste, Marcela Cristini, Cynthia Moskovitz and Ivana Templado

4764: Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program

Julian Cristia, Pablo Ibarraran, Santiago Cueto, Ana Santiago and Eugenio Severin

4763: Institutionalization of Political Institutions and their Impact on Public Policy

Carlos Scartascini and Mariano Tommasi

4762: Does Inequality Breed Altruism or Selfishness? Gauging Individuals' Predispositions towards Redistributive Schemes

Fabiana Machado

4761: Housing Finance in Central America: What is Holding It Back?

Francisco Sancho, Luis Rivera and Julio Rosales

4760: Prudent Banks and Creative Mimics: Can We Tell the Difference?

Andrew Powell, Marcus Miller and Antonia Maier

4759: Protecting Workers against Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Argentina

Martin Gonzalez-Rozada, Lucas Ronconi and Hernán Ruffo

4758: Unemployment in Bolivia: Risks and Labor Market Policies

Werner Hernani-Limarino, Maria Villegas and Ernesto Yanez

4757: Health Perceptions in Latin America

Eduardo Lora

4756: The Presidency and the Executive Branch in Latin America: What We Know and What We Need to Know

Alejandro Bonvecchi and Carlos Scartascini

4755: When Should Developing Countries Announce Their Climate Policy?

Jorge Fernandez and Sebastian Miller

4754: Ideas for Development in the Americas, Volume 26: Room for Development in Housing Markets

Rita Funaro

4753: Productivity and Resource Misallocation in Latin America

Matias Busso, Lucia Madrigal and Carmen Pages

4752: Are Uruguayan Housing Policies Reaching the Poor? An Assessment of Housing Deficit, Housing Informality and Usage of Housing Programs in Uruguay

Natalia Garabato and Magdalena Ramada-Sarasola

4751: The Demand for Mortgages under Macro Volatility: The Argentine Case

Sebastian Auguste, Ricardo Bebczuk and Ramiro Moya

4750: The Missing Foundations of Housing Finance: Incomplete Markets, Fragmented Policies and Emerging Solutions in Guatemala

Mario Cuevas, Sigfrido Lee and Maria Isabel Bonilla

4749: Housing Finance in Mexico: Current State and Future Sustainability

Marco Lopez-Silva, Raul Abreu-Lastra, Alberto Saracho-Martinez and Agustin Paulin-Hutmacher

4748: Housing Finance in Peru: What is Holding it Back?

Miguel Palomino Bonilla and Rudy Wong Barrantes

4747: Climate Change Funds and Implications for LAC Countries and the IDB

Sebastian Miller and Bok-Keun Yu

4746: Is there an Anti-labor Bias of Taxes? A Survey of the Evidence from Latin America and Around the World

Adriana Kugler

4745: Housing Finance Policy under Dutch Disease Pressure: The Mortgage Market in Trinidad and Tobago

Sebastian Auguste, Ramiro Moya and Sandra Sookram

4744: A Short-Term Cost- Effectiveness Evaluation of Better-Quality Daycare Centers

Ricardo Barros, Mirela de Carvalho, Samuel Franco, Rosane Mendonca and Andrezza Rosalem

4743: Early Nutrition and Cognition in Peru

Ingo Outes-Leon, Catherine Porter and Alan Sanchez

4742: The Impact of Internet Banking on the Performance of Micro and Small Enterprises in Costa Rica: A Randomized Controlled Experiment

Ricardo Monge-Gonzalez

4741: Innovation, Research and Development, and Productivity: Case Studies from Peru

Juana Kuramoto

4740: News Shocks and Asset Price Volatility in General Equilibrium

Akito Matsumoto, Pietro Cova, Massimiliano Pisani and Alessandro Rebucci

4739: The importance of public resources in the quality of local life: The case of Manizales, Colombia

Liliana Velasquez

4738: Low-Income Housing Finance in Colombia

Maria Arbelaez, Carolina Camacho and Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez

4737: Housing Markets in Uruguay: Determinants of Housing Demand and its Interaction with Public Policies

Natalia Garabato and Magdalena Ramada-Sarasola

4736: Housing Tenure and Housing Demand in Colombia

Maria Arbelaez, Roberto Steiner, Alejandro Becerra and Daniel Wills

4735: Tacit Collusion in the Santiago Housing Market

Fernando Lefort and Miguel Vargas

4733: Argentina`s Housing Market in the 2000s

Marcela Cristini, Ramiro Moya and Guillermo Bermudez

4732: China’s Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America

Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, Mohammad Pesaran, Alessandro Rebucci and TengTeng Xu

4731: Protecting Workers against Unemployment in Uruguay

Veronica Amarante, Rodrigo Arim and Andrés Dean

4730: Housing Finance in Brazil: Institutional Improvements and Recent Developments

Bruno Martins, Eduardo Lundberg and Tony Takeda

4729: A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life

Eduardo Lora and Andrew Powell

4728: Does Contracting-Out Primary Care Services Work? The Case of Rural Guatemala

Julian Cristia, William Evans and Beomsoo Kim

4727: Latin American Middle Classes: The Distance between Perception and Reality

Eduardo Lora and Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez